Shame that this is a misleading title, because it's actually an interesting article about how the FBI caught a predator in what's basically a case of dumb luck.
This is an article about a sex offender, convicted mostly for heinous sex offenses against children. The jumbotron was simply the coincidental starting point.
What an annoying clickbait title - if I had known this uncomfortable and stomach turning story was the subject of the article, I would not have chosen to read it.
> Jaguars' jumbotron hack, [child sexual abuse material] possession/production, and the illegal possession of "a firearm as a convicted felon."
Everything about this story sounds like Florida.
'Florida Man attempts to 'hack' stadium Jumbotron with TeamViewer, after being fired for failing to declare child sexual abuse conviction during application for employment, then answers FBI knock at his door while searching for more CSAM on his iPad, then is found with more CSAM on other devices and to have produced CSAM in his living room, then tries to flee to a country with an extradition treaty with the US and is extradited back, then tries to defend self with a typo-based defense.'
> Last week, Thompson was sentenced. He got 220 years in federal prison, "followed by a lifetime of supervised release."
Has anyone had experience with whether the FBI would investigate this for a lower-profile, less politically connected business/business owner?
It's a pretty minor incident: A green line, which did no real harm, and an attack via a server manually setup on the network with Teamviewr, so no real threat.
The incidents that occurred were minor but had the potential to be much worse (for instance, if he had figured out how to upload and display one of the items from his personal multimedia collection).
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[ 4.3 ms ] story [ 53.2 ms ] threadtl;dr: Install the jumbotron in the first place and also add teamviewer as part of your installation.
> (and end up in jail for 220 years)
tl;dr: By producing child pornography.
I don’t like to editorialize an existing title if I can help it.
Please accept my apologies for not adding a warning in.
How to hack the Jacksonville Jaguars’ jumbotron (and end up in jail for 220 years)
Please accept my apologies for not adding a warning in.
What an annoying clickbait title - if I had known this uncomfortable and stomach turning story was the subject of the article, I would not have chosen to read it.
Please accept my apologies for not adding a warning in.
Everything about this story sounds like Florida.
'Florida Man attempts to 'hack' stadium Jumbotron with TeamViewer, after being fired for failing to declare child sexual abuse conviction during application for employment, then answers FBI knock at his door while searching for more CSAM on his iPad, then is found with more CSAM on other devices and to have produced CSAM in his living room, then tries to flee to a country with an extradition treaty with the US and is extradited back, then tries to defend self with a typo-based defense.'
> Last week, Thompson was sentenced. He got 220 years in federal prison, "followed by a lifetime of supervised release."
Seems the justice system finally worked, here.
It's a pretty minor incident: A green line, which did no real harm, and an attack via a server manually setup on the network with Teamviewr, so no real threat.